Impulses of agro-pastoralism in the 4th and 3rd millennia BC on the south-western coastal rim of Norway

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-34

  Høgestøl, Mari ^a   Prøsch Danielsen, Lisbeth ^a  

^a Museum of Archaeology   (Norway)

Author keywords

Agro pastoralism; Archaeology; Clearance phases; Neolithisation; Pollen analysis; South western Norway

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649033467     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174963106x97034     Document Type: Article

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